PHOTOS: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger delivers his final State of the State address
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, center, walks onto the floor of the Assembly chamber moments before delivering the State of the State address in the California Capitol in Sacramento. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)
“Together, as a team -- as fractious, tentative and uncertain as it might have been -- together we got California through the front end of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression,” Schwarzenegger told lawmakers during his State of the State address. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger called for broad changes to the state’s budget, pension and tax systems, a constitutional requirement to spend more on higher education than prisons, and a greater share of federal funding for California. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)
Schwarzenegger’s initiatives are certain to be difficult given that he and lawmakers face another $20-billion deficit -- similar to the one that took months to close last year -- and that they already have cut drastically many state programs. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)
California First Lady Maria Shriver talks with Sarah Granda, 30, from Davis, and her mother, Beverly, after Schwarzenegger’ s State of the State address. Granda was a guest of the governor, who pointed out her overcoming of obstacles in graduating from law school at UC Davis and passing the state bar exam in November. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)
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